Before TiRon and Ayomari drop off their new album, entitled THE GRE▲T NEW WºNDE®FUL ☂, look out for at least one more mini-EP from the Cafeteria Line duo to hold us over while waiting. Below you can check out the first one.
It’s a good day when you get something new from TiRon & Ayomar. Dig.
Directed by Eric Thompson & The Cafeteria Line.
Tiron and Ayomari‘s A Sucker For Pumps may have dropped over a year ago, but the videos are still going strong. You can check out that project by clicking here.
The Cafeteria Line just dropped their new compilation album featuring of course, TiRon and Ayomari as well as some appearances from Ab-Soul and ScHoolboy Q. Check the stream and buy this album. Dope shit.
Directed by Jason Madison.
Above is a video off of TiRon and Ayomari‘s 2011 A Sucker For Pumps release.
Here’s a nice recap of this years’ Paid Dues.
Read more »StrongArm + Amadeuz Christ and the Open University crew traveled down to San Bernardino in April for the Paid Dues festival. In this re-cap they caught up with R.A. The Rugged Man, TiRon & Ayomari, Brother Ali, The Alchemist & DJ Fresh. Artists were asked how important a festival like Paid Dues is to the culture of Hip-Hop, and for an artist to be part of. Check us out at
www.thisisopenuniversity.com and follow us on twitter: @StrongArm408 @AmadeuzChrist @DJCombsy.S/O to Scarlett Boyle & everyone at Guerilla Union, as well as Murs, for putting on a great event, and allowing us to cover it.
Look out for interviews with Brother Ali, Gangrene (The Alchemist + Oh No), Chace Infinite, Hieroglyphics, and more dropping soon. Check out www.guerillaunion.com for more info on Paid Dues Festival.
This beat, man. I definitely fux with this joint. Free download if you click and head over to Bandcamp.
Directed by David M. Helman
Here’s a new video from one of my favorite releases of 2011 A Sucker For Pumps.
We decided a few weeks ago to put together a list of our favorite projects this year. Locally, globally, hip hop, eclectic, and instrumental wise. We also want to state that this is by no means a “best of” list, just the projects that Jay Diff and myself were bumping and/or feeling the most. We each chose 25 hip hop releases, 10 eclectic and/or instrumental releases, and came together and chose a few local projects. We suggest you check out anything we post, but being said, we REALLY suggest checking out these projects:
‡ = we both selected it
g = seangevity chose it
d = jay diff chose it
Favorite Hip Hop Releases:
Action Bronson – Well Done (‡) [Buy]
Big K.R.I.T. – Return of Forever (‡) [Free]
Common – The Dreamer, The Believer (‡) [Buy]
Danny Brown – XXX (‡) [Free]
Grumpy Old Men – Sunday Skool (‡) [Free]
Kendrick Lamar – Section 80 (‡) [Buy]
Mighty High Coup – Boom Rap (‡) [Buy]
Pac Div – The Div (‡) [Buy]
Pharoahe Monch – W.A.R. (‡) [Buy]
Phonte – Charity Starts at Home (‡) [Buy]
Random Axe – Random Axe (‡) [Buy]
Skyzoo – The Great Debater (‡) [Free]
The Roots – undun (‡) [Buy]
Torae – For The Record (‡) [Buy]
9th Wonder – The Wonder Years (d) [Buy]
Astronote – Weapon of the Future (g) [Free]
Charlie Smarts – LowBottomMe (g) [Free]
Co$$ – Before I Awoke (g) [Buy]
DTMD – Makin Dollas (g) [Buy]
Elzhi – Elmatic (d) [Buy]
Evidence – Cats & Dogs (g) [Buy]
Exile – 4trk Mind (g) [Buy]
Fabolous – The S.O.U.L. Tape (d) [Free]
Game – The R.E.D. Album (d) [Buy]
J. Cole – Cole World: The Sideline Story (d) [Buy]
Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne (d) [Buy]
Laws – Yesterday’s Future (g) [Free]
Local Nobodies (Sulaiman & Mathien) – One (g) [Free]
Luckyiam – I Love Haters (g) [Buy]
Meek Mill – Dreamchasers (d) [Free]
Rapsody – For Everything (d) [Free]
Saigon – Greatest Story Never Told (d) [Buy]
Statik Selektah – Population Control (g) [Buy]
TiRon & Ayomari – A Sucker For Pumps (d) [Buy]
Thurz – LA Riots (g) [Buy]
Wale – Eleven One Eleven Theory (d) [Free]
Favorite Eclectic/Instrumental/Other Releases (Not Hip Hop):
Iman Omari – Energy (‡) [Free]
Mayer Hawthorne – How Do You Do (‡) [Buy]
14KT – 14 Killa Tape (g) [Free]
Apollo Brown – Clouds (g) [Stream/Buy]
Eric Lau – Quadrivium (g) [Stream/Buy]
Eric Roberson – Mister Nice Guy (d) [Buy]
flaKo – Carving Away The Clay (d) [Stream/Buy]
Frank Ocean – Ultra Nostalgia (d) [Free]
Hawthorne Headhunters – Myriad of Now (g) [Stream/Buy]
J*DaVeY – New Designer Drug (g) [Buy]
Jhene Aiko – Sailing Sounds (d) [Free]
Nicolay & The Hot at Nights – Shibuya Sessions EP (d) [Stream/Buy]
Nikkiya – Speakher (d) [Free]
Mecca:83 – Life Scetches (Volume 1 & 2) (g) [Stream/Buy]
Radio Galaxy – We Come In Peace (d) [Stream/Buy]
Sunclef – The Tesseract (g) [Free]
The Weeknd – House of Balloons (d) [Free]
Vlooper – COPYCAT (a Dilla Tribute) (g) [Free]
Favorite Local Hip Hop Releases:
alpha.live – Soul Cinema [Free]
Blake Allee – My Best Friends Are Machines [Free]
Future5ive – Somewhere in August [Free]
J.Brookinz & Grey Granite – Gateway 2 [Free]
Hinx Jones – Frozen Liquor [Stream/Buy/Free]
Mr. Kinetik – Sounds of Soul [Stream/Buy]
Mr. Kinetik & Rusty Redenbacher – The Professor & The Hustler [Free]
Roskoh Deyvis – Welcome to the Wiz [Stream]
Scoot Dubbs – The Time Has Come EP [Free]
Skittz – Rhymestrong [Stream/Buy]
The Proforms – Atavism [Buy]
Tony Styxx – It’s Bigger Than Me [Stream/Buy/Free]